President Alvaro Uribe says there is evidence that drug traffickers were linked to a company seized by the government during a nationwide panic over hundreds of millions of dollars in lost investments, congressmen said Tuesday.

Colombia's government readied emergency measures Sunday to appease irate investors who lost tens of millions of dollars in the collapse of pyramid schemes that caused riots, scores of arrests and two deaths.

President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday fired 19 army officers, including three generals and four colonels, over the killing of civilians. His government said at least some of the murders were aimed to falsely boost combat body counts.

The world's most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in a civil ceremony at a location still to be decided.